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To have a park model tiny house / log cabin on your own land somewhere does sound pretty awesome. This particular model is only available in Idaho, Montana, Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Alberta, and British Columbia. Check out the Pacific Lodge built and manufactured by Palm Harbor Homes. It is a 386 square feet wooden [...]

A small charity group in Madison, Wisconsin is collecting donations and building 98 sq. ft. $3,000 tiny houses on wheels with the area’s homeless. And it’s not just a hand out since the future tiny home owners labor away to help build their own homes, and hopefully some of their future neighbors homes too. The [...]

This is a Reader Submitted Q&A — Submit Your Own Here I was just wondering if there are any tiny house trailers that are designed to a lifetime mileage specification? Maybe designed for 10,000 lbs load for a maximum of 5000 miles over their lifetime? Or set up a chart that might show what can [...]

I’ve been covering tiny houses and other smaller and alternative types of housing for the last few years and I can say that it’s easy to find great examples of small homes every day. What bothers me is that the majority of what I find is the opposite of affordable housing. It’s normally boutique hotels, [...]

Asheville NC, just experienced its rainiest summer on record. I recall last year being a bit wet as well. Both seasons included a few days where we needed run our generator to supplement the solar power and recharge our batteries until the sun decided to make its reappearance. I’ll be honest; a rainy day in [...]

As you know I have been happily living in my tiny house for nearly a year and a half. Matt and I started this project a very long time ago and I thought maybe I would go back to the beginning to share some of my own tiny house building advice. If I were to [...]